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Part II Passenger Transport Areas
9A. General functions of Passenger Transport Authorities and Executives.
9B. Consultation and publicity with respect to policies as to services.
15A. Additional provisions as to control of Executive by Authority.
16. Publication of annual report by Authority and Executive and prevention of improper conduct of subsidiary activities.
Reorganisation of passenger transport in Passenger Transport Areas
Part III Bus and Ferry Services
National Bus Company and Scottish Transport Group
24. Establishment and general duties of Bus Company and Scottish Group.
27. Financial provisions with respect to Bus Company and Scottish Group.
28. Transfer to Bus Company or Scottish Group of certain securities, rights and liabilities.
29. Transfer of certain property, rights and liabilities between Railways Board and Bus Company or Scottish Group.
Part IV Further Provisions as to Boards, New Authorities and Transport Services
Additional financial provisions with respect to Boards and new authorities
Miscellaneous further provisions with respect to transport services
56. Assistance by Minister or local authority towards capital expenditure on public transport facilities.
57. Grants for research or development in connection with transport services, etc.
57A. Grants for research or development in connection with transport services by inland waterways in Scotland
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60. Users of certain goods vehicles to hold operators’ licences.
66. Conditions as to matters required to be notified to licensing authority.
67. Duration of operators’ licences and grant of interim licences.
69. Revocation, suspension and curtailment of operators’ licences.
69A. Operating centres for authorised vehicles to be specified in operators’ licences.
69B. Objection to, or refusal or modification of, applications for operators’ licences on environmental grounds.
69D. Variation of operators’ licences with respect to operating centres and conditions affecting their use, etc.
69E. Publication of notice of applications for licences and variations in localities affected.
Part VIII Bridges, Level Crossings, etc.
116. Transfer of responsibility for maintenance of highways on bridges over Boards’ railways, inland waterways, etc.
118. Duty of highway authorities, etc., as respects bridges over Boards’ railways or inland waterways.
119. Ending of liability of Boards to make payments on being relieved of responsibility for bridges carrying trunk or special roads.
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121. Application of foregoing sections to undertakers other than Railways Board, London Board and Waterways Board.
Part X Miscellaneous and General
134. Duty to act in certain cases as body engaged in commercial enterprise.
139. Land required as service area for special road: compensation in certain cases of compulsory acquisition.
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144. Transfer and disposal of historical records and relics.
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SCHEDULES
Commencing Capital Debts of New Authorities
1.Each of the new authorities shall severally assume a commencing...
2.For the purposes of any period between the day appointed...
3.Without prejudice to section 53(5) of this Act, the Minister...
4.The Minister’s power to make an order under paragraph 1...
5.In the application of this Schedule or section 39(6) and...
Supplementary Provisions as to certain Transfers of Property, Rights and Liabilities
Passenger Transport Authorities and Executives
Matters which may be dealt with by order under s. 9(1)
6.The proceedings of the Authority and the Executive respectively.
7.The establishment by the Authority and the Executive respectively of...
8.The delegation of functions by the Authority or the Executive...
9.The authentication of documents of the Authority and the Executive...
10.The appointment by, or provision by the Executive for, the...
11.Provision— (a) for treating the Authority or any subsidiary of...
12.The provision of accommodation for the Authority by the Authority...
13.Provision applying, with or without modifications, to the Authority or...
14.The making of reports and the furnishing of information by...
17.Provision, as respects any period before the Authority appoint or...
Bodies whose Securities are Transferred to Bus Company
Aldershot and District Traction Company Limited.
Amalgamated Passenger Transport Limited.
Bath Electric Tramways Limited.
Bath Tramways Motor Company Limited.
The Birmingham and District Investment Trust Limited.
The Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company Limited.
Brighton, Hove and District Omnibus Company Limited.
Bristol Commercial Vehicles Limited
Bristol Omnibus Company Limited.
British Transport Advertising Limited.
The City of Oxford Motor Services Limited.
Cheltenham District Traction Company.
Crosville Motor Services Limited.
Cumberland Motor Services Limited.
The Devon General Omnibus and Touring Company Limited.
Durham District Services Limited.
East Kent Road Car Company Limited.
East Midland Motor Services Limited.
East Yorkshire Motor Services Limited.
Eastern Coach Works Limited.
Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Limited.
The Eastern National Omnibus Company Limited.
Greenslades Tours Limited.
Hants and Dorset Motor Services Limited.
Hebble Motor Services Limited.
Lincolnshire Road Car Company Limited.
London Coastal Coaches Limited.
The Maidstone and District Motor Services Limited.
Mansfield District Traction Company.
The Mexborough and Swinton Traction Company Limited.
The Midland General Omnibus Company Limited.
Neath and Cardiff Luxury Coaches Limited.
North Western Road Car Company Limited.
The Northern General Transport Company Limited.
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Traction Company.
Newbury and District Motor Services Limited.
Otley Omnibus Stations Limited.
Park Royal Vehicles Limited.
The Potteries Motor Traction Company Limited.
Red and White Services Limited.
The Rhondda Transport Company Limited.
Ribble Motor Services Limited.
Shamrock and Rambler Motor Coaches Limited.
South Midland Motor Services Limited.
The South Wales Transport Company Limited.
Southdown Motor Services Limited.
The Southern National Omnibus Company Limited.
The Southern Vectis Omnibus Company Limited.
T.H.C. Bus Nominees Limited.
The Thames Valley Traction Company Limited.
Thomas Brothers (Port Talbot) Limited.
Throughways Transport Limited.
Tillings Transport (T.H.C.) Limited.
A. Timpson and Sons Limited.
Trent Motor Traction Company Limited.
United Automobile Services Limited.
United Counties Omnibus Company Limited.
United Welsh Services Limited.
West Riding Automobile Company Limited.
West Yorkshire Road Car Company Limited.
The Western National Omnibus Company Limited.
Western Welsh Omnibus Company Limited.
Wilts and Dorset Motor Services Limited.
The Yorkshire Traction Company Limited.
Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Company Limited.
London Country Bus Services Limited.
New Bus Grants—Supplementary Provisions
3.A notice under paragraph 2 of this Schedule may require...
5.Any person who, in purported compliance with a notice under...
6.Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with...
7.Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with...
9.Summary proceedings in Scotland for an offence under paragraph 7...
11.(1) Where an offence under this Schedule committed by a...
Amendments Consequential on Part V
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PART II AMENDMENTS AS FROM APPOINTED DAY FOR PURPOSES OF S. 94(8)
THE ROAD HAULAGE WAGES ACT
THE ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1960
THE TRANSPORT ACT 1962
THE ROAD SAFETY ACT 1967
Amendments Consequential on Part VI
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Commercial and Cruising Waterways
The main navigable channels of the following waterways:—
The Aire and Calder Navigation from the tail of River...
The Calder and Hebble Navigation from the tail of Greenwood...
The Caledonian Canal.
The Crinan Canal.
The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation from the tail of...
The New Junction Canal connecting the Sheffield and South Yorkshire...
The Trent Navigation from the tail of Meadow Lane Lock,...
The Weaver Navigation and the Weston Canal from Winsford Bridge...
The River Severn from Stourport to its junction with the...
The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.
The River Lee Navigation from Hertford to the River Thames...
The main navigable channels of the following waterways:—
The Ashby Canal from its junction with the Coventry Canal...
The Birmingham Canal from its junction with the Birmingham and...
The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal from its junction with the...
The Calder and Hebble Navigation from Sowerby Bridge to the...
The Chesterfield Canal from the tail of Morse Lock, Worksop,...
The Coventry Canal from its junction with the Birmingham and...
The Erewash Canal from Tamworth Road Bridge to its junction...
The Fossdyke Navigation.
The Grand Union Canal from its junctions with the Birmingham...
The Grand Union Canal from Leicester to Norton Junction, including...
The Kennet and Avon Canal from High Bridge, Reading, to...
The Lancaster Canal from Preston to Tewitfield, including the branch...
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal from Old Road Bridge, Aintree,...
The Macclesfield Canal.
The Oxford Canal from its junction with the Grand Union...
The Peak Forest Canal from the top of Marple Locks...
The Ripon Canal from its junction with the River Ure...
The Sheffield and Tinsley Canal from its commencement at the...
The Shropshire Union Canal from its junction with the Manchester...
The River Soar Navigation from its junction with the River...
The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.
The River Stort Navigation.
The Stourbridge Canal from its junction with the Birmingham Canal...
The Stratford-on-Avon Canal from its junction with the Worcester and...
The Trent and Mersey Canal, including the branch to Hall...
The Trent Navigation from Shardlow to the tail of Meadow...
The River Ure Navigation from its junction with the Ripon...
The Witham Navigation from Lincoln to Boston.
The Worcester and Birmingham Canal.
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Application to Northern Ireland
Provisions extending to Northern Ireland
Part I.
Part II (except sections 10(3), (4), (5) and (9), 13...
Sections 24 to 29.
Section 33.
Part IV (except sections 39, . . . 47(1)(a)(ii) and...
Sections 100 and 101.
Sections 104 to 107 and 110, and so much of...
Sections 134, 135, 136, 137, 146, 150,. . . ,...
So far as they relate to any provision of this...
Schedules 1 to 5, 7 and 16.
This Schedule.
In Schedule 18, Part I,. . .
1.In section 10(1)(xxix), the reference to Parliament shall include a...
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3.In section 135(4)(b), for the reference to a tribunal established...
4.In section 137(3)(a) and (4), the references to the Secretary...
8.An arbitrator for the purposes of paragraph 13(3) of Schedule...
9.References to enactments or statutory provisions include references to enactments...
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